Sentences with word «momentous»

What a wonderful time of celebrating momentous occasions!

In this section, about the size of Rhode Island, some of the most momentous events in the history of the world took place, including two events transcending all others — the birth and death of Jesus.

Ahmad replaced Hayatou after 29 years: The single most momentous day of the year in African football - and an argument could be made that it was the biggest landscape shift in the continent's game in several decades - came on March 16 2017.

But this issue of the Networker features some intrepid authors who explore, with an unusual degree of transparency, how difficult it can be to determine what's in the best interests of clients on the brink of making perhaps the most momentous decision for which therapists regularly have a front - row seat.

Often times, the smallest acts of compassion are catalysts for momentous change.

Yet history may judge 2016 as an even more momentous year for midsize trucks because the 2016 Chevrolet Colorado is the first modern example to offer a diesel engine.

The feat has come as a huge surprise to many Ghanaians who did not anticipate that a Ghanaian pastor could be called upon to minister on an occasion as momentous as the inauguration of a US president.

Giving birth is one of the most momentous occasions in any woman's life.

Used exclusively by the royal family for speeches on momentous occasions, each of these three priceless microphones dating back to the 1920s and 1930s was Information

In ancient times the Hawaiian people came together to celebrate momentous occasions, these gatherings were called «Aha`aina (which translates to gathering for a meal).

In his first four films (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special), writer / director Jeff Nichols created a series of strong, brave characters, most notable for their quiet restraint as they deal with momentous events in their lives.

There's little doubt we're living in momentous times.

She stayed in Paris for eight years before she moved to Vétheuil where she remained for the last 25 years of her life, producing dynamic paintings despite such momentous events as the loss of close family, friends and her long battle with cancer that took her life in 1992.

However, the sculptures and installations do not mark momentous occasions; on the contrary, they show introspective, unspectacular moments, by way of a figurative representation, by the use of a minimalist symbolic language, or by employing the actual materials to which they refer.

The Backroom's mission is to be an alternative space where artists can make momentous decisions in their practice and experiment freely in the company of their peers.

Of course, most of The Walk is pure prelude, 80 minutes of time killing until Petit takes that first momentous step off the edge of the south tower.

So, the day after one of the most momentous shifts in Labour Party policy of the last decade, he found two hours in his diary to make a desperate dash into the lion's den.

Of the relevant E.U. legislation, the 15 - year phase - out of animal testing requirements for cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients, completed in March 2013, is widely regarded as the most momentous achievement worldwide, at least to date, on behalf of laboratory animal welfare.

Hagee says that previous blood moon cycles occurred at momentous events in Jewish history: In 1493, as Jews were expelled from Spain; in 1949, as the state of Israel was founded; and in 1967 during the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

AMD earned less, but arguably had the more momentous year.

A decision so momentous for the unhappy pastor involves many factors, said Hoge.

To celebrate the most momentous milestone of one million Shovel Knight sales, we've decided to release a whole bunch of new themes on all sorts of systems!

My rainbow baby turned five last week, and there is something momentous about that, because he isn't a baby anymore.

They intimated a talented hobbyist, and seemed unlikely to eclipse the historical importance of Parsons's Manhattan art gallery, which staged often momentous exhibitions of important New York artists, including Jackson Pollock, Agnes Martin and Richard Tuttle.

Thus writes Matthew Lambert in his new book, Privatization and the Public Good: Public Universities in the Balance, an analysis of present - day public higher education, which is currently plagued by momentous challenges.

Moscow can not claim the history of the Kyivan Church as its own and simultaneously ignore such momentous moments in that history.

The results are definitive: Seven years after leaving Momentous Institute, 99 % of its alumni graduate high school on time.

Coming on the heels of Norton Rose's merger with / acquisition of firms in Canada and South Africa, it amounts to one of the most momentous weeks in recent marketplace memory.

With such momentous developments, the military is not only opening new gates to innovation but also creating new unknowns.

BEIJING — The most momentous challenge facing socio - economic systems today is the...

Just as these are compressed momentous experiences, verbally catching the beauty and simplicity of everyday matters and phenomena; my paintings would provide some visual equivalent.

► Finally, in this week's Science editorial, Michael S. Turner makes a plea for curiosity - based science, pointing to scientific connections between two recent momentous discoveries, the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) detection of evidence of gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (still subject to confirmation) and the detection of the Higgs boson.

THE history of quantum physics is nothing if not momentous.

Guadagnino's images feel momentous at times, his actors artfully positioned on screen like the Hellenic statues that Mr. Perlman excavates from the Mediterranean.

Project Zero, a research organization at the Ed School, is developing an online learning community to accompany this walk — a community in which school children from around the world come together to follow Salopek's momentous journey and use it as a...

They force Aeneas himself to wrestle with «momentous questions.»

On the heels of what should have been a watershed moment for recently minted CEO Tim Cook — the unveiling of the highly anticipated iPhone 4S — came an even more momentous announcement for the tech world: Steve Jobs, newly retired and former chief executive of Apple, had passed on.

Having read the recent NYT article about evidence on a paleontological time scale makes me think that we might get close to underastanding climate until panama falls into the sea, or some more likely, but equally momentous thing happens.

This is truly momentous news for the UK arts world.»

Nearly 40 years ago, in late November of 1973, something rather momentous happened at the Opéra Royal on the grounds of the King's old digs outside Paris.

Said Jim Campbell, Chevrolet vice president of Performance Vehicles and Motorsports: «This is a truly momentous year for Chevrolet when it comes to performance, with our continued success on and off track, and especially with our return to the IndyCar Series, powering some of the fastest cars on the circuit.

But too often, we wait to start over only during momentous occasions: moving houses or states, graduating, getting married.

Days after the United Kingdom's momentous vote in favor of leaving the European Union, the U.K. science community is seething with anxiety.

In 1905 and 1913, exhibitions of avant - garde art were presented at the Museum, including Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase and other momentous works from the controversial 1913 Armory Show in New York.